The latest Magento Patch, SUPEE-9767, Community Edition 1.9.3.3, and Enterprise Edition 1.14.3.3 address to eliminate security vulnerabilities. Important Note Implement and test the patch to confirm it works according to the expectations before deploying it to a live...

Hello! There’s a serious vulnerability that affects most Linux Operating Systems, CVE-2016-5195, also known as DIRTY COW (yes, the name sounds silly but the problem is serious!). Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux...

Brute force attacks against Magento stores are unfortunately common, as with any popular web framework. Fortunately, they are easily countered as they are often lazy attacks from automated scripts or botnets that try to use the default Magento paths to gain entry....

Over time, Magento installs can become bloated with unnecessary data, the main culprit here is the log tables such as log_url in the database. They can get very large and eventually slow down your Magento install. The log tables that can be safely truncated include:...

We recommend using Redis for caching in Magento 1, instead of the file cache. For most updated Magento installs you need to only add this to your local.xml, very old versions may need to add the Redis module itself. Add this code below the session save path (or...

Base URLs are one of the most important parts of Magento and they cause constant trouble for our customers. The good thing is, by knowing about them you will save yourself infinite time and feel like a wizard. Within the Magento admin, these values can be viewed by...

Check to see if the Magento cron is set to run, it controls sending those emails and any other task scheduled within Magento that might send an email. If it is set, check to see if its executing properly with n98 tools or via the cron_schedule table. Two of the jobs...

Magento depends on the indexers to keep your site up to date and to do its magic quickly. For Magento 1.X there are two ways to index: Command-line Via the Magento admin Reindex via the Magento Admin To reindex follow these steps: Log into your Magento store admin Go...